Job 36:21
Take heed, do not regard iniquity, to choose it rather than poverty.
Psalm 66:18
If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
Hebrews 11:25
choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season,
1 Peter 3:17
For it is better (if the will of God so desires) that ye suffer for doing good than for doing evil.
Job 34:7-9
What man is like Job, who drinks up the scorn like water?
Job 35:3
For thou didst say, What advantage will it be unto thee? And, What profit shall I have, if I am cleansed from my sin?
Ezekiel 14:4
Therefore speak unto them and say unto them, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Every man of the house of Israel that sets up his idols in his heart and has established the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face and comes to the prophet, I, the LORD, will answer him that comes like this in the multitude of his idols
Daniel 3:16-18
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to King Nebuchadnezzar, We are not careful to answer thee in this matter.
Daniel 6:10
Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he entered into his house; and with the windows open toward Jerusalem in his dining chamber, he knelt three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God as he was used to doing before.
Matthew 5:29-30
Therefore if thy right eye should bring thee occasion to stumble, pluck it out and cast it from thee; for it is better for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Matthew 13:21
yet he has no root in himself but is temporal, for when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, by and by he is offended.
Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said unto his disciples, If anyone will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
Acts 5:40-41
And they agreed with him; and when they had called the apostles and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus and let them go.
1 Peter 4:15-16
So let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as desirous of the things of others.